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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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1. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






2. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






3. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






4. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






5. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






6. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






7. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






8. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






9. The time and place of a story or play.






10. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






11. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






12. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






13. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






14. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






15. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






16. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






17. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






18. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






19. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






20. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






21. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






22. The person who 'tells' the story.






23. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






24. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






25. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






26. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






27. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






28. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






29. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






30. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






31. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






32. A character struggles against some outside force.






33. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






34. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






35. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






36. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






37. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






38. The selection of words in a literary work.






39. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






40. The dictionary meaning of a word.






41. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






42. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






43. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






44. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






45. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






46. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






47. A four line stanza in a poem.






48. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






49. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






50. Broken down acts.